Galicia - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

Because this region lacked its own heraldic shield, English writers punning on its Celtic-inspired name invented a symbol with three yellow grails on a blue background. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this region of Spain whose city of Santiago de Compostela was often visited as the endpoint of the Way of Saint James, an important pilgrimage of the medieval era.

ANSWER: Galicia [or Gallaecia or Galiza]

[10e] Galicia was the last part of Spain conquered by these people who ruled Spain after the Roman Empire until the Muslim conquest.

ANSWER: Visigoths [prompt on Goths]

[10h] During the Migration Period, Galicia was settled by these people under Hermeric, who ruled their own kingdom until 585. The Hohenstaufen dynasty originated in a German region named for these people.

ANSWER: Suebi [or Suevi or Suebians; accept Schwaben or Swabians]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	18.00	70%	70%	40%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	18.33	100%	67%	17%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	60%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	23.75	100%	75%	63%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	4	17.50	75%	50%	50%

Data


Maryland B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	10	10	10	30
UNC D (DII)	GWU B (Grad)	10	10	10	30
UNC C (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	10	10	10	30
Claremont A	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Texas A	Iowa A	10	10	10	30
Geodesic	South Carolina	10	10	10	30
Kentucky	Tennessee	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Rice A	Iowa B	0	10	0	10
UW A	Sorbonne	10	10	0	20
Appalachian State	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A&M B	UBC A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Cedarville	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Ohio State A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt B	Alabama	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Binghamton	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	RIT B	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Cornell B	10	10	10	30
Liberty B (DII)	Virginia B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Liberty C (DII)	JMU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (Grad)	Virginia A (UG)	10	10	0	20
JMU B (UG)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	0	10	20
UNC B (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia C (UG)	Duke A (UG)	0	0	0	0
William & Mary A (UG)	Maryland C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Arizona State	Minnesota C	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
NYU A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Penn	Johns Hopkins	10	10	0	20
Vassar	NYU B	0	0	0	0
John Jay	Rowan	10	0	0	10
Durham B	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Durham A	Cambridge A	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Edinburgh	10	10	10	30
Imperial A	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Cambridge C	10	10	10	30
Kiel	KCL	0	10	0	10
Oxford B	Oxford A	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Sheffield	0	10	10	20